In 1958, a computer went online in Moscow that counted in ternary — not 0 and 1, but -1, 0, and +1. Setun required 7 times fewer components than comparable binary machines of the era, ran in over 30 universities, …
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Ternary Computing has released the 5500FP — the first commercial processor with native ternary logic. This is not binary emulation or a lab prototype: every operation runs on real FPGA hardware with actual three-state electrical behavior. This article breaks down …
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Ubuntu Workshop: The Right Sandbox for Running AI Agents Canonical released Workshop in May 2026 — a tool for launching isolated development environments using LXD system containers with a single command. Its timing reflects a real problem: coding agents, local …
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Esoteric LLM is a useful experiment wrapped in an unusual domain: a 9-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned on 22 books about tarot, kabbalah, hermeticism, alchemy, the I Ching, astrology, and gnosticism. The full training run took about 11 hours, and the …
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